Tuesday, August 05, 2014

Today is the centenary of the outbreak of WW1 and I have turned the lights out on the Wing One-Place Study website to acknowledge those from Wing that served.

If you continue on to the website, you'll find that the WW1 page has been expanded. You may recall at the beginning of the year I was planning to have profiles of each serviceman up on the website beginning this month. The rapid escalation in the number of men (and women) with Wing connections who served during the war has meant I've now declared this a four-year centenary project. Today I have updated the list of servicepeople, expanding it from 125 to 315 people, so that you can see who I've identified so far - the first step in the project. This won't be my "final" word on the names of
WW1 servicemen born in, living in, or with other close connections to
Wing, but it's getting there - there's around 50 more men I don't have
full names or regiments for yet.

If you have a serviceman ancestor from Wing, have info to share, or are
simply keen to see their profile make it online sooner rather than
later, please email me so I can prioritise them (and perhaps we can work
together on researching them). While you're waiting, can I suggest a trip to the wonderful new Wing At War website from my friend Sarah? She has transcribed the parish magazines for Wing for the WW1 period and collated information on a variety of topics for you to read about.